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Selecting indigenous trees for your garden

There is growing interest in South Africa in planting indigenous trees in our parks and gardens, so we are fortunate to have so many beautiful tree species that could be planted more widely...

Mondi partners with forestry land reform communities

Mondi has established Mondi Forestry Partners to provide support to land reform beneficiaries in an effort to sustain the productivity

Keeping seedlings healthy between nursery and field

Caring for your seedlings pays dividends. A lot of work goes into ensuring they are strong and healthy and have

Tierra del Fuego: land of fire

Tierra del Fuego is a truly remote part of the earth, with a unique forestry ecosystem that proves the adaptive

Building a business the Bracken Timbers way

Bracken Timbers is a privately owned forestry and agriculture business that started way back in the 1920s when the Hill

Harvester solves problems for Karkloof Timbers

Last year Brendan Raw of Karkloof Timber Contractors decided to invest in a harvesting machine in a bid to revitalise

Uses and management of natural forest wood in the Wild Coast

Many people think that natural forests along the Wild Coast in the Port St Johns area are getting lost, but what is their real status?

Useful tips from your nursery

Nurserymen producing seedlings or transplants of any kind want to send the best possible seedlings to the field. However, in

Social component of forestry

When I began my forestry career some 30 years ago, foresters managed in a very different environment from the one

Smart surveillance system keeps watch over our plantations

One of the most advanced camera surveillance systems in the world, developed here in South Africa, is watching over forests

Lions River FPA on red alert

The Lions River FPA is one of 15 FPAs in KZN that is spearheading rural fire management and prevention with

KZN FPAs organising on an unprecedented scale

The wildfires that ravaged the forestry industry in KwaZulu-Natal in 2007 and 2008 served as a wake-up call. The mild

The evolution of fire risk analysis

By analysing the risks and identifying the gaps in your organisation's preparedness, you could save yourself a lot of pain,

MTO Forestry: balance between forestry and conservation

With droughts, floods, fires, baboons, elephants and fynbos to contend with, MTO Forests has the challenging responsibility of managing extensive

PG Bison: Mule power for low impact thinnings

PG Bison uses specially bred mules to extract thinnings in their southern Cape forests, thus minimising environmental impacts and providing

Sneezewood or Mthathe: a well used natural forest species is looking after itself

This is the first of a series of articles by Dr Coert Geldenhuys, forest ecologist, on natural forests and natural forest species, focusing on their contribution and usefulness to the environment, to the livelihoods of people, and their potential to contribute to economic development.

SGASA certification scheme simplified

The Seedling Growers Association of South Africa's (SGASA) certification scheme is based on the Australian Nursery scheme and was fine-tuned

31st December 2009

Rebuilt Spitzkop sawmill excels

If ever there was an advertisement for what an ideal sawmill should look like, it would be Spitzkop. Planned and

31st December 2009

Buy timber seedlings from a certified nursery

The Seedling Growers Association of South Africa (SGASA) was formed in the late 1980s when containerised plant production was the

31st December 2009

Richmond FPA not beating about the bush

The 2009 fire season in the summer rainfall areas of South Africa was a relatively easy one, compared to the

New Champion Trees discovered

A total of 44 trees have been declared as national Champion trees so far, and they are protected under the National Forests Act of 1998.

Motor-manual system works for contractor

Leonard Kheswa obtained his agricultural diploma at the then CWAKA Agricultural College near Empangeni and then joined Sappi Forests as

Harvesting wattle bark the UCL way

Every year in early spring the familiar sight of trucks loaded with wattle bark can be seen winding their way